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38 relations: Abonnema, Ahoada, Akuku-Toru, Alveolar consonant, Approximant consonant, Asari-Toru, Atlantic–Congo languages, Benin City, Consonant, Defaka language, Degema, Rivers, Edo State, Edoid languages, Engenni people, Ethnologue, Ewu, Fricative consonant, Ijaw languages, Implosive consonant, Kalabari language, Kalabari tribe, Labial consonant, Labialization, Labialized velar consonant, Language change, Local government areas of Nigeria, Mutual intelligibility, Nasal consonant, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Postalveolar consonant, Rivers State, Stop consonant, Trill consonant, Umbrella term, University of Port Harcourt, Velar consonant, Volta–Niger languages.
Abonnema
Abonnema (originally known as Nyemoni, which means "covet your own" in the Kalabari dialect of the Ijaw languages group) is a larger town in the Kalabari kingdom that was founded in 1882.
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Ahoada
Ahoada (Ahuda, Ehuda) is a city in Orashi Region of Rivers State, Nigeria, located northwest of Port Harcourt.
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Akuku-Toru
Akuku-Toru is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.
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Alveolar consonant
Alveolar consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the superior teeth.
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Approximant consonant
Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.
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Asari-Toru
Asari-Toru is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.
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Atlantic–Congo languages
The Atlantic–Congo languages are a major division constituting the core of the Niger–Congo language family of Africa, characterised by the noun class systems typical of the family.
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Benin City
Benin City is the capital of Edo State in southern Nigeria.
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Consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract.
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Defaka language
Defaka is an endangered and divergent Nigerian language of uncertain classification.
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Degema, Rivers
Degema is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.
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Edo State
Edo is a state in Nigeria.
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Edoid languages
The Edoid languages are some two-to-three dozen languages spoken in Southern Nigeria, predominantly in the former Bendel State.
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Engenni people
The Engenni people (Egeni) are considered by themselves and some to be an Ijaw clan and by others (mainly academics) to be a branch of the Edo (Bini) ethnic group.
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Ethnologue
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.
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Ewu
Ewu is a Nigerian city situated in Esan Central Local Government area in Edo State of Nigeria.
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Fricative consonant
Fricatives are consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.
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Ijaw languages
The Ijaw languages, also spelt Ịjọ, are the languages spoken by the Ijaw people in southern Nigeria.
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Implosive consonant
Implosive consonants are a group of stop consonants (and possibly also some affricates) with a mixed glottalic ingressive and pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism.
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Kalabari language
Kalabari is an Ijaw language of Nigeria spoken in Rivers State and Bayelsa State.
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Kalabari tribe
The Kalabari are a tribe of the Ijaw people living in the western Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
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Labial consonant
Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.
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Labialization
Labialization is a secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages.
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Labialized velar consonant
A labialized velar or labiovelar is a velar consonant that is labialized, with a /w/-like secondary articulation.
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Language change
Language change is variation over time in a language's phonological, morphological, semantic, syntactic, and other features.
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Local government areas of Nigeria
Nigeria has 774 local government areas (LGAs).
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Mutual intelligibility
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort.
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Nasal consonant
In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive, nasal stop in contrast with a nasal fricative, or nasal continuant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.
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Niger Delta
The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.
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Postalveolar consonant
Postalveolar consonants (sometimes spelled post-alveolar) are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge, farther back in the mouth than the alveolar consonants, which are at the ridge itself but not as far back as the hard palate, the place of articulation for palatal consonants.
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Rivers State
Rivers State, also known simply as Rivers, is one of the 36 states of Nigeria.
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Stop consonant
In phonetics, a stop, also known as a plosive or oral occlusive, is a consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.
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Trill consonant
In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the active articulator and passive articulator.
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Umbrella term
An umbrella term is a word or phrase that covers a wide range of concepts belonging to a common category.
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University of Port Harcourt
The University of Port Harcourt is a university in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt.
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Velar consonant
Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (known also as the velum).
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Volta–Niger languages
The Volta–Niger family of languages, also known as West Benue–Congo or East Kwa, is one of the branches of the Niger–Congo language family, with perhaps 50 million speakers.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degema_language
